Category: Alumni
Photos: Eshelman $100 Million Gift Ceremony
December 4, 2014On Dec. 3, 2014, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced a $100 million commitment to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy from Fred Eshelman, a 1972 graduate of the School, founder and former CEO of Pharmaceutical Product Development, and founding chairman of Furiex Pharmaceuticals. For information about this historic gift, read more here. https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157649197991828/show
$100 Million: Eshelman Gift to Fund Innovation Is Largest Ever to a Pharmacy School
December 3, 2014The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today announced a $100 million commitment to the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy from Fred Eshelman, a 1972 graduate of the School, founder and former CEO of Pharmaceutical Product Development, and founding chairman of Furiex Pharmaceuticals. The School was named for Eshelman in 2008. The commitment—the largest from an individual in the University’s history and the largest ever made to a pharmacy school in the United States—will be used to create a center within the School named the Eshelman Institute for Innovation. Making Ideas Reality and Taking Them Public Through strategic collaborations … Read more
Mickey Watts ’63 Receives UNC Pharmacy Alumni Award
October 10, 2014Mitchell W. “Mickey” Watts has been awarded the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy Alumni Association’s 2013 Distinguished Service Award. Watts is a 1963 graduate of the School and received the award at its annual Recognition Dinner in Chapel Hill on September 18. Watts is president of the Pharmacy Network Foundation, an organization whose goal is to improve the delivery and quality of pharmaceutical care to the public. He helped establish the Pharmacy Network of North Carolina, a benefit-management company, in 1986. Watts and his partners expanded the network into the multistate Pharmacy Network National Corporation. Proceeds from the sale of … Read more
Photos: Alumni Weekend 2014
October 3, 2014More than 200 alumni returned to Chapel Hill for Alumni Weekend 2014. The weekend kicked off with the 21st Annual Golf Tournament, a Chapel Hill/Carrboro Food Tour, and the 2nd Annual CE Connections seminar with Jay Groce (BSPharm ’83). The weekend also included a barbecue and Fall Reunion events for all alumni, with recognition of graduates from the classes of 1984 and 2004. https://www.flickr.com//photos/uncpharmacy/sets/72157648615208479/show
Eshelman Gives $3 Million to School’s Drug-Discovery Center
September 3, 2014The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy has received a $3 million gift from philanthropist and pharmaceutical-industry executive Fred Eshelman. Eshelman’s gift will support the work of the School’s Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery. The center is dedicated to evaluating and developing potential drug targets discovered by UNC faculty. The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy is one of the nation’s top pharmacy schools. It ranks second in total research funding and has the number-two doctor of pharmacy program in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report. The CICBDD Researchers at UNC often discover interesting biological systems … Read more
Yingling Receives Alumni Distinguished Service Award
August 23, 2013Gary Yingling, a 1962 graduate of the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, received the UNC Pharmacy Alumni Association’s 2012 Distinguished Service Award at the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina’s Annual Foundation Dinner on August 22. Each year, the UNC Pharmacy Alumni Association selects an alumnus or alumna whose accomplishments and contributions have enhanced the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and the pharmacy profession at the local, state, national, and international levels to receive the Distinguished Service Award. In addition to his pharmacy degree, Yingling holds a master’s degree from Purdue University and a law degree from Emory University. He is … Read more
Preceptor and Residency Alumna Branham Named NCAP Community Pharmacist of the Year
August 15, 2013Ashley Branham, PharmD, an alumna of the community pharmacy residency program at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, has been named the 2013 Community Care Pharmacist of the Year by the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. Branham is the director of clinical services at Moose Pharmacy in Concord, North Carolina. She is also a clinical pharmacist at Cabarrus Family Medicine. She serves as the chair of NCAP’s Community Care Practice Forum, as well as the organization’s Immunization Task Force. She also serves as a preceptor for the School and an adjunct instructor in the Division of Practice Advancement and Clinical … Read more
Lloyd Receives School’s Burrus Community Service Award
April 15, 2013Hillsborough pharmacist Evelyn Lloyd received the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy’s highest award for community service at the School’s April 14 awards ceremony. Lloyd received the 2013 Samuel B. Burrus Family Award for Community Service, which is presented to alumni and students who exhibit outstanding and unselfish civic, community, or church volunteer service outside the scope of regular pharmacy practice. The award is funded by the Pharmacy Foundation of North Carolina and is given by the Burrus family in memory of Samuel B. Burrus, a 1915 graduate of the Southern College of Pharmacy in Atlanta. One award is presented annually … Read more
Eshelman Gives $2.5 Million to Fund Instruction, Research
March 22, 2012The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a $2.5 million gift from alumnus Fred Eshelman, PharmD, to expand the School’s research programs and help transform the classroom experience for pharmacy students. The gift brings his total support for the School to more than $35 million. “In every respect, the School is just going up, up, up. I’m very fortunate to be a part of this, but it has precious little to do with me. I just put the gas in the car. The School is driving it,” Eshelman says. “I’ve … Read more
Fred Eshelman Receives University’s Davie Award
November 19, 2009The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees has honored Fred Eshelman and three other recipients with the William Richardson Davie Award, the board’s highest honor. Chancellor Holden Thorp and the trustees honored Fred Eshelman, founder of PPD Inc., of Wilmington; Richard Krasno, executive director of the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust, of Chapel Hill; Gov. Beverly Perdue of Raleigh; and Richard “Stick” Williams, senior vice president of environmental health and safety at Duke Energy Corp., of Charlotte during a dinner Wednesday, November 18, at the Carolina Inn. Established by the Board of Trustees in 1984, … Read more